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    Having Some Trouble with the XPS M1530

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by a817, Aug 31, 2008.

  1. a817

    a817 Notebook Guru

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    I been having some trouble with my hard drive. As of today mourning i had 125gb of free space. I didnt download anything and it has fell to 118gb, I feel that my hard drive constantly decreases. (it was 130 something a week ago). I have tried a system restore but the comp is unable to do it. It states it cant do it because of error's in the hard drive. It prompts me to fix it and then it states "windows cant check the disk while it is in use, DO you want to check for hard disk errors the next time you start your comp" I then click on the schedule disk check, and the prompt disappears and dose not schedule a check. I restart the computer and nothing happens. Does anyone know what is going on? sorry for being such a newbie.
     
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    redrubberpenguin Notebook Consultant

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    If you pop in the install disk (Dell should have included one with your XPS), and boot from it (F12 on BIOS menu, I think), you can check the disk from there. Go to "Repair Computer", open up a command prompt, and type in "chkdsk c:". It should check your disk and repair it for you.

    Also, is it the capacity of your hard drive that's falling, or just available space? There's an important difference between the two.
     
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    bikerboy94 Notebook Evangelist

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    do a disk clean up from system tools. then delete all but last save point for system restore ive gotten back as much as 16 gig.
     
    bikerboy94, Sep 1, 2008
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